Margaret Thatcher

The Face: Andrea Riseborough

Oh! What a lovely ‘whore’ From her portrayal of a surprisingly flirtatious Margaret Thatcher to an aristocratic girl who is swept up in the ferment of the English Civil War, Andrea Riseborough is fast becoming the go-to young...

Forget next election, worry about now

Too often after an election, people try to skip ahead to the next one, forgetting that elections actually serve a purpose other than making campaign workers and candidates feel good or bad until the next campaign.

The habits and health of British women

A survey of 1,000 British women aimed to find out what women these days value, what they’re thinking about and what their habits are. As you can imagine, a lot of the survey had to do with how women feel about themselves and...

Train Station Fire: On this day in disaster history…

1987, London: King's Cross station fire. The final death toll was 31 - the highest in an Underground accident since a train crash at Moorgate in 1975 killed 43 people. Investigators said the most probable cause of the fire was...

LOOKALIKES: Bullard is nicknamed 'Mrs Doubtfire' - but which United star resembles Cameron Diaz...

Jimmy Bullard is teased by his Fulham colleagues for looking like Iron Ladies, Margaret Thatcher and Mrs Doubtfire, according to former team-mate Moritz Volz. The Cottagers midfielder, who was called up for England duty after...

Guardian Readers Blame The Guardain

BOH writes: “This was pointed out to me by Dave in the commetns section of the Gruaniad.” A Guardian reader writes: Dear Ms Featherstone, I think the people who should truly say sorry for such events are the opinion leaders of...

It was acceptable in the eighties

The 1980’s marked the last time an Albion player made the England team and the last time the Baggies won at Stoke, explains Steve Madeley. Yet Scott Carson could kick things off in Berlin, by becoming the club’s first England...

Learning From History: The British Auto Bailout That Failed

As Washington contemplates the possibility of injection hundreds of billions of dollars into a failing automobile manufacture, The New York Times looks at a remarkably similar story from Great Britain in the 1970s: PARIS — A...

Nigeria: Privatisation And Matters Arising

Commercialization and later privatisation of Nigeria's state-owned enterprises (SOEs) has been a major thrust of economic reform policy of various administrations since 1989. The new world economic order dictated this choice...

Billy Elliot Taps a Rich Vein of Triumphant British Defeatism

Billy Elliot at the Imperial Theatre." title="David Alvarez as Billy in Stephen Daldry’s Billy Elliot at the Imperial Theatre." />Billy Elliot is the best thing to happen to Broadway for a long while. The hit West End show...

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